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Micron TechnologyMicron Technology, Inc., is one of the world's leading
providers of advanced semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide operations,
Micron manufactures and markets DRAM, NAND flash memory, CMOS image sensors,
other semiconductor components, and memory modules for use in leading-edge
computing, consumer, networking, and mobile products. Micron's common stock is
traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the MU symbol. To learn more
about Micron Technology, Inc., visit www.micron.com.
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Who's who in SSD? - by Zsolt Kerekes, editor - January 2012 Micron sampled its 1st SSD products in early 2008 and made its first appearance in the Top 20 SSD Companies list in Q3 2010. But the company was just below the top 20 in the most recent edition of the top SSD companies (Q4 2011). For competing SSD suppliers see these directories:- PCIe SSDs, 2.5" SSDs and SATA SSDs. Micron recently acquired the assets of UK based Virtensys which marketed rackmount SSDs stuffed with Micron's PCIe SSDs with a patented multi-server sharing virtualization interface. The leading companies in the enterprise acceleration PCIe SSD market (Jan 2012) are:- Fusion-io, Texas Memory Systems, OCZ and Virident Systems. In the next level down are:- STEC and LSI and another 40 or so companies - which include Micron. | |
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In April 2008 - Micron and Nanya Technology announced they were each investing $550 million in cash in a new joint venture. In November 2008 - Micron demonstrated prototypes of fast PCIe flash SSDs with 800MB/s throughput, and hinted that 1GB/s SSDs could be available soon. The performance itself (for a prototype) is unremarkable - because 3 other oems already ship flash SSDs with similar (or faster) performance as commercial products. Z's Laws - Predicting Future Flash SSD Performance In February 2009 - Micron announced restructuring plans will reduce employment at their Idaho sites by approximately 500 employees in the near term and as many as 2,000 positions by the end of the company's fiscal year. In July 2009 - IDT announced it was working with Micron to develop a commercial PCIe flash SSD for the server market. Micron had previously tested market reaction by unveiling a prototype PCIe SSD (with 800MB/s R/W speeds) in November 2008. In December 2009 - Micron announced it is sampling 6Gbps SATA MLC SSDs in 1.8" and 2.5" form factors. Micron's C300 SSD can achieve a read throughput speed of up to 355MB/s and a write throughput up to 215MB/s. Editor's comments:- Long anticipated in StorageSearch.com's flash SSD Roadmap - it was inevitable that we would be seeing 6Gbps SATA SSDs soon, because several companies have already sampled 6Gbps SAS SSDs which use the same physical interface. It was simply a question of when vendors would judge the market conditions right. In February 2010 -Micron announced an agreement to acquire privately held Numonyx in an all-stock transaction worth approximately $1.3 billion. This strengthens Micron's position as one of the world's leading memory companies, with a broad portfolio of DRAM, NAND and NOR memory products. Analyst comment:- from Objective Analysis - "By acquiring Numonyx, Micron is buying the current leader in the NOR flash market - which has been a difficult one for nearly all participants. Leaders Numonyx and Spansion have suffered losses for several years, with Spansion recently turning a profit through a strategy largely focused upon markets for low-density parts used by markets outside of cell handsets, the largest consumer of NOR flash. Micron itself participated in NOR starting in the late 1990s, but abandoned this effort in 2006." In August 2010 - Micron Technology announced it is sampling the RealSSD P300 - a 200GB 2.5" SATA 3 SLC flash SSD with R/W IOPS of 44,000 and 16,000 respectively. Micron's new P300 SSD sounds almost exactly the same as the C300 SSD the company said it was sampling in December 2009. The main differences are:- the newer product has lower R/W IOPS, and is SLC instead of MLC - which is better for most mission critical apps. In June , 2011 - 30 months after pre-announcing its intentions to enter the PCIe SSD accelerator market - Micron today announced it is sampling the first products in a new family which will ship in the 3rd quarter of this year. The company says its RealSSD P320h drive delivers upto 750K / 341K R/W IOPS, and 3GB/s / 2GB/s R/W throughput. It uses Micron's own 34nm SLC ONFI 2.1 NAND flash and has on-board RAM cache. Micron says it manufactures most of the chips used in the new cards a customized SSD controller. In January 2012 - Micron announced it has acquired the assets UK based Virtensys which marketed rackmount SSDs stuffed with Micron's PCIe SSDs and supported by a patented multi-server sharing virtualization interface. | |
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